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In this chapter, I relay the ways in which my personal life and academic are not separate. I discuss the ways in which positionality impacts epistemology and how my path to becoming an academic is largely shaped by this dynamic. Reflecting on my childhood and my schooling, I present the ways in which my writing is non-traditional from an academic perspective in that I write myself into academia without a pretense of objectivity. I discuss the ways in which I privilege experiential knowledge as official knowledge and invite the reader to tell their story(ies).

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Chang, A. (2018). Introduction. In: The Struggles of Identity, Education, and Agency in the Lives of Undocumented Students. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64614-5_1

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